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Gallery Notes Volume 36 Number 2

Gallery Notes Volume 36 Number 2 Page 1

Acquisition
Our American fold art collection is growning
rapidly. Here's one of our newest additions.
And a pretty showy one it is too. It stands
seven feet high and is painted blue, white, and
gold. Called "Crested Swans," this wood
carveing was made by John Scholl, a German
builder-carpenter who emigrated to Pennsyl-
vania in the 1850s. Way toward the end of his
life (he died in 1916, when he was 89) he began
carving the intricate, architectural "fantasies"
that suddenly, and very posthumously, made
him famous when his work recently came to
light. Altogether Scholl made 45 of these
creations, all of them different, all of them
piled high with the symbols of Pennsylvania
German folk art. He kept every single one of
them, as did his heirs, until 1967 when they
were offered for sale in a Manhattan gallery.
An immediate sensation, the pieces were
quickly snapped up by museums and collectors.
We bought ours through the Marion Stratton
Gould Fund. It was one of those pictured in color
in an article on Scholl in American Heritage.
Members' Opening
87th Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club
Contemporary Craftsman from Norway
Friday evening, October 16, 8- 10 o'clock
Sherry/Coffee
Admission by membership card
Shows run through November 8
Show Closing
N Dimensional Space--to October 11
3-dimensional art by holography
Campaign
Our campaigners are off and running. Out for
the $280,000 in membership contributions that
will keep the Gallery running full tilt for the
coming season. General chairman and their associates
are: corporate, William Burks and Lester Franken-
stein; special gifts, Robert Gianniny and Raymond Hay;
and general solicitation, Mrs. C. Jackson Clarke and Mrs. William Taber. They've got about 750 equally
active and effective people working with them.
Encourage them any way you can. Like with money.
Grant
Now that we've reassured you that the Gallery
is indeed very vigorously looking for bread-
and-butter money for this coming season, we
will go into the reason why the campaign goal
isn't a whole lot more than it is.
What's happened is the $114,244 grant from the
New York State Council on the Arts announced
a couple of weeks ago. This grant includes
$51,000 for the support of the year's schedule
of exhibitions, lectures, and related programs,
and pick up what had been projected as a deficit.
The rest of it is earmarked for desperately-needed
community service programs.
One immediate result is the extension of the
Gallery's accessibility to its public, free of
charge. Now we're open two nights a week--
Saturuday as well as Tuesday--with free admis-
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Acquisition
Our American fold art collection is growning
rapidly. Here's one of our newest additions.
And a pretty showy one it is too. It stands
seven feet high and is painted blue, white, and
gold. Called "Crested Swans," this wood
carveing was made by John Scholl, a German
builder-carpenter who emigrated to Pennsyl-
vania in the 1850s. Way toward the end of his
life (he died in 1916, when he was 89) he began
carving the intricate, architectural "fantasies"
that suddenly, and very posthumously, made
him famous when his work recently came to
light. Altogether Scholl made 45 of these
creations, all of them different, all of them
piled high with the symbols of Pennsylvania
German folk art. He kept every single one of
them, as did his heirs, until 1967 when they
were offered for sale in a Manhattan gallery.
An immediate sensation, the pieces were
quickly snapped up by museums and collectors.
We bought ours through the Marion Stratton
Gould Fund. It was one of those pictured in color
in an article on Scholl in American Heritage.
Members' Opening
87th Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club
Contemporary Craftsman from Norway
Friday evening, October 16, 8- 10 o'clock
Sherry/Coffee
Admission by membership card
Shows run through November 8
Show Closing
N Dimensional Space--to October 11
3-dimensional art by holography
Campaign
Our campaigners are off and running. Out for
the $280,000 in membership contributions that
will keep the Gallery running full tilt for the
coming season. General chairman and their associates
are: corporate, William Burks and Lester Franken-
stein; special gifts, Robert Gianniny and Raymond Hay;
and general solicitation, Mrs. C. Jackson Clarke and Mrs. William Taber. They've got about 750 equally
active and effective people working with them.
Encourage them any way you can. Like with money.
Grant
Now that we've reassured you that the Gallery
is indeed very vigorously looking for bread-
and-butter money for this coming season, we
will go into the reason why the campaign goal
isn't a whole lot more than it is.
What's happened is the $114,244 grant from the
New York State Council on the Arts announced
a couple of weeks ago. This grant includes
$51,000 for the support of the year's schedule
of exhibitions, lectures, and related programs,
and pick up what had been projected as a deficit.
The rest of it is earmarked for desperately-needed
community service programs.
One immediate result is the extension of the
Gallery's accessibility to its public, free of
charge. Now we're open two nights a week--
Saturuday as well as Tuesday--with free admis-
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester